NJ Restaurant Threatened; Place W/Same Name Booted Sarah Sanders

A New Jersey restaurant wants people to know that it wasn't the same place that booted Trump Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders from its premises last week. But that hasn't stopped people from calling and threatening them anway.

"The calls haven't stopped," Elizabeth Pope, the operating manager, told Patch.com on Sunday when asked about the harassing complaints the Red Hen Restaurant in Swedesboro has been getting. "I've lost count of the hate mail."

At one point, there were 100 calls within about six hours Saturday afternoon, she said. "One person called and threatened to burn us down," Pope told Patch.

When asked if she has contacted the police, Pope said, "I don't think we're quite there yet."

This all started after a restaurant with the same in Virginia had asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave last week. Soon after, Trump and Sanders's supporters started to call.

They also started to leave terrible online reviews for the New Jersey restaurant, dropping her ratings on Google and elsewhere from near a 5 to the 3-range, Pope said.

The Virginia restaurant told The Washington Post that she asked Sanders to leave and explained it was because the restaurant has "certain standards" that it feels it has to uphold, such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation." Staff members who are gay said they felt uncomfortable with her presence.

Pope wants people to "check their facts" and realize they are no affiliated at all with the Virginia restaurant.

"We have a rainbow family and we respect everybody's differences," she said.

People have also suggested to Pope that the restaurant, which has been around for six years. should change its name

"We're not doing that," she said.

And it's not taking down its Facebook page either.

Here is the message the restaurant left on Facebook:

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